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Score 96/100 · Drink 2025-2042, Monica Larner, Wine Advocate, Aug 2023

Packaged with a black label, the Gianfranco Alessandria 2019 Barolo San Giovanni (with 5,000 bottles made) is born in a little-known cru located in Monforte d'Alba. The wine is padded with extra richness and rich fruit in this vintage, and it reveals lots of aromatic detail and nuance with wild cherry, rose, crushed stone and a dab of dried mint. The finish is dry and mineral driven in an especially subtle manner.

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94
94/100

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92
92/100

Antonio Galloni, Vinous

96
96/100

Monica Larner, Wine Advocate

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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Score 92/100 · Drink 2025-2035, Antonio Galloni, Vinous, Jan 2023

The 2019 Barolo San Giovanni is the more powerful of the estate's two Barolos. It offers up scents of mocha, spice, dark cherry, plum and leather. There's a bit more new oak too, which adds intensity as well as volume. The San Giovanni emerges form the oldest vines on the property, but I have to admit I like the straight Barolo a bit more because of its greater finesse.

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Gianfranco Alessandria
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Grape Blend

Nebbiolo

Colour

Red

Taste

Dry

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